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UNITED STATES WILLIAM H. BOYD, on

PATENT OFFICE.

LoUisI'ANA, MIsso RI.

NETTING.

SPEGIFIQATION forrning part of Letters l atent No, 237,616, dated October 30, 1883. l,

` y Application filed August 29, lS. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, WILLIAM H. BoYD, of Louisiana, in the county of Pike and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Netting, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This inventi on consists in a fish-net or other netting made of metal, substantially as hereinafter described and claimed, the same to be used in the place of nets or netting made of thread, oord, or twine, and whereby not only a largely-increased durability and great strength are obtained, but time,.1abor, and material in the matter of repairs andin preserving the net or netting from decay are economized. i

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate co'rresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents a-face view of a piece of my improved nettng, and Fig. 2 an edge 'view of aportion of the same. V

The piece of netting represented in the accompanying drawings, instead of being made of twine wrought or woven in meshes, is constructed of copper or other wire capable of end, c, round the closed end b of a loop in a succeeding row, thereby forming eyes for the loops, where connected. with each other, throughout the'length of the wires, to give the requisite flexibility to the net and to preserve the integrity of its meshes as formed by the arrangement' of its loops.

This wire net or netting will be found Very much more durable than a similar article made of twine, and when madeof copper or other wire which is free, or largely so, from injury f by exposure to damp or the Weather, Will save the time,`labor, andmaterial consumed in ap,-

plying tar or other preservatives to its surface f and in drying the same, as necessary with nets or netting made of cord or twine.

Having thus fully descrbed my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentd Awire net or netting formed of anynumber of r'ows or lengths of wire, AA', bent in azigzag manner to produce loops, each loop hav- `ing one rounded closed end, b, and being twisted at its opposite end, c, round the closed end b of a' loop in a succeeding row, essentially as shown and described, and for the purposes herein set forth.

` WILLIAM* H. Born. Witnesses: v

, GEO. W. BUGKNER,

I. N. BRYsoNQ 

